Stitches & Sweet Tea

10/14/2026

10/10/2026

Here’s what’s going on for October! I’m looking forward to seeing everyone at our NEW Stitch & B*tch Friday Nights, Family Craft Day, Game Night, & all the other great classes!

10/03/2026

How cool!! 😎 🤩🤯

09/20/2026

Well…I should have shared this yesterday, but the message is all the same. I was teaching my dear friend Alli how to knit yesterday and share my passion for quilting & creativity every day at the shop. How do you share your love of the needle arts? 💕🪡🧵🧶

Today, in honor of Teach the World to Sew Day, we are highlighting some of Edith Roosevelt’s sewing practices.

-Just as TR could be found always with a book, Edith had her sewing. Their eldest son Ted wrote in his book, All in the Family, that evenings in the North Room meant “Father, a book under one arm, poking [the fire] with a long iron trident, Mother sitting sewing in a corner of the sofa by a lamp.”

-Edith often sewed for charity. An article appearing in the July 16, 1902, edition of The New York Times called her “one of the most industrious of the needlewomen who make clothing for the poor.”

-Edith even used sewing to problem solve. During stays at Sagamore Hill, rather than doing laundry there, Edith found it more convenient to send it out. However, much of it failed to come back in, having been delivered to one of the other local Roosevelt families. To differentiate her laundry, Edith started sewing the monogram “R of S” (Roosevelts of Sagamore) on items. With designs ranging from the more simple to the elaborate, these labels ensured a safe return.

-And sewing was something Edith passed on, teaching her daughter Ethel how “to sew and to enjoy it,” according to former White House executive clerk William H. Crook. Outside of her family, Edith aided the Little Sunbeam Sewing School in Oyster Bay, which promoted “the instruction of girls in needlework and the endeavor to make them thoughtful of others.”

As Crook remembered, “Mrs. Roosevelt is an exquisite needlewoman.” Just as Teach the World to Sew Day and National Sewing Month in September “recogni[zes] . . . the importance of home sewing to our Nation,” sewing is an equally important part of Edith’s lasting legacy as a wife, mother, First Lady, and global citizen. So in honor of Edith, get out there and sew!

For those of you who do sew, we’d love if you dropped in the comments below what your favorite project has been.

09/13/2026

How true! 😂 Happy Sunday!

09/01/2026

Let me know if you are interested in sewing with me and my Quilts of Valor group. We’re always looking for people to help share the love for our veterans and active duty military service personnel. 🇺🇸❤️ Need to nominate someone? I can help with that also.

A woman in Delaware had a dream about her son in Iraq.

Catherine Roberts saw him wrapped in a quilt. She woke up and sewed one herself. It went to a wounded soldier at Walter Reed instead of her own son.

Quilters across the country picked up the idea and kept going. The 450,000th Quilt of Valor went to a retired Army major in July 2026, out of more than 454,000 hand-sewn for veterans touched by war so far.

About a hundred more are finished every day - volunteers are already piecing the next one.

08/14/2026

A day late, but still very cool!! 😎

On this day, American inventor Isaac Merritt Singer secured a patent that would stitch the nation into the age of mass production. His 1851 sewing machine wasn’t the first—others, like Elias Howe, had paved key pieces of the way—but Singer’s foot-treadle, straight-needle design made sewing faster, sturdier, and accessible to ordinary households and workshops. Marking the 175th anniversary, it’s worth noting a hidden innovation wasn’t purely mechanical: Singer pioneered installment plans and in-home demonstrations, an early blend of technology and modern marketing that helped his machines spread worldwide.

The Singer machine reshaped work. It shortened the time to make a shirt from hours to minutes, supercharging ready-to-wear clothing and fueling the rise of the garment industry in cities like New York. It also transformed domestic labor—women could earn wages from home—and sparked fierce patent battles that led to one of America’s first “patent pools,” a legal truce that kept innovation moving. From factory floors to family parlors, Singer’s sewing machine stitched together a new consumer economy.

07/23/2026

Join us for John’s Birthday Sale on Friday, July 24th! 30% OFF Storewide!! And a special bonus…🤩🎂

07/17/2026

No, it’s not quilting related, but even more important…keeping our kids & grandkids safe. I’m sharing this with everyone I know with children. Now it’s your turn to do the same. Thank you Port Orange Police Department for this great information and helping keep our families safe.

PARENTS & GUARDIANS: Do you know all the apps on your child’s phone?

As our kids spend more time online, the Port Orange Police Department wants to make sure our local families stay one step ahead of digital dangers. Many popular apps have hidden features that expose children to cyberbullying, location tracking, and contact from strangers.

07/02/2026

Just WHOA! 😳 Love this!!